Hi. I'm thinking of upgrading to reason 4, but I don't want to loose all of my Reason Song
Files, or patches for the synth's etc. Does R4 install a whole new program, or just an
upgrade ? And are the original R3 synth patches left intact ?

Tootsweet, thanks, I've made a folder for all my Reason patches, everything, and stored it
in My Documents. I hope R4 has some useful things other than the Thor, R3 is already
great, and pretty bottomless, I don't want it to become too complicated.

Hi, I now have R4. The Thor is good, I programmed a couple of sounds already. The presets
are the usual cheesy rubbish, just what we need, another "Phat Bass" and "Trance Lead"
jeeze... when will they learn ? or just leave the thing blank !
I think there are
going to be some useful things, especially the dedicated arpeggiator. I've loaded in all
of my R3 sounds and they all seem to work fine.

Quote arpangel:Hi, I now have
R4. The Thor is good, I programmed a couple of sounds already. The presets are the usual
cheesy rubbish, just what we need, another "Phat Bass" and "Trance Lead" jeeze... when will
they learn ? or just leave the thing blank !I think there are going to be some
useful things, especially the dedicated arpeggiator. I've loaded in all of my R3 sounds
and they all seem to work fine.

I'm looking forward to it - was going to order it the other week but I made the mistake of
checking my bank account first, and discovered I was really skint, so I'll probably leave
it for a couple of months :-(

FAVORITES: I read on a Props forum that these are stored in a .INI file in the program
directory, so I guess you can copy / back that up. I would copy the specific lines out as
the R4 version of the .INI file might be different

Reason 3 & 4 together: When
you install R4 it un-installs R3 first!

Patches: All R3 patches exist in R4.
There are loads of new patches in R4 including new ones for old effects / instruments.

I haven't had a real chance to explore mine properly yet, but I just opened all my Reason
3 folders on my memory stick and loaded them in, it all seems to work fine. I just created
a new set of "favorite folders" in the patch window, and put all my sounds in there, one
folder for each instrument.